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Conscience Lost – New Faces Vol. 4

LYRICS – CONSCIENCE LOST

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Ha – I’m not going to even attempt to write full lyrics. I like the crunchy guitars in this recording and the spirit of the vocal. Versatile Aggression is/was a Southern California band.

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Sconte – New Faces Vol. 4

LYRICS – SCONTE

I can’t define what’s in front of me
But it won’t let me
It’s a tragedy
It’s hard to focus
Goes round and round
And I keep you in mind
Break it down

(Pulled out my keep and injected my car)
Then I pulled out the gates
A little high and a little bit drunk
A cigarette couldn’t wait
( ?)
As I looked to the full moon

What I saw next I went “no one could see”
It’s about our favorite cartoons

Making out with ( ? )
I saw them as I walked by
I was taking shots of tequila
While the pink elephants were all getting high

Me I know what gave (Zira the eye)
But (then like) Spider the Man
Betty Boop was taking off all her clothes
She was wearing only (farmer tent)

(Up go the bomb)

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I can’t make out all the lyrics on this song so I put some of the words in parenthesis. I like this piece for it’s driving guitars and energy. Missing Link is/was a Southern California metal band.

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Who Cut The Cheese? – New Faces Vol. 4

LYRICS – WHO CUT THE CHEESE?

Who the cheese?
Can you open up a window in here
Because I can’t breathe

I said who cut the cheese?
It smells like it was silent
But deadly

I said who cut the cheese?
It is and always will
Be a mystery

CHORUS
But I think it was Eddie
‘Cause he never ever admits it
He cut the cheese
But I know that he cut the cheese

Who cut the cheese?

CHORUS
But I think it was Eddie
‘Cause he never ever admits it
He cut the cheese
But I know that he cut the cheese

Well I know that he cut the cheese

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Rarely has a song from any genre captured the frailty of the human condition in so few words. Rivaled only by Shakespeare in it’s concise description of our experience on this floating speck of solar driftwood.

To my memory, Opposite 3 was a high school punk band from the Barstow, California area. And every one knows I love song about burps and farts.

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Soy (De Christo) (Spanish) – New Faces Vol. 4

LYRICS – SOY (DE CHRISTO)

Soy de Christo

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My apologies that my Spanish is not good enough to do a full posting of the text with a full translation. Maybe someone will see this and be able to post the lyrics and an English translation in the comments here?

627 is a Hispanic Christian band from Victorville in the Southern California High Desert.

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20 Days To Hollywood – New Faces Vol. 4

LYRICS – 20 DAYS TO HOLLYWOOD

Better get your doctors baby
Get your lawyers too
(I will) stay here girlfriend
(It’s rock music to you uh huh)
I wanna be a rock star
Music so loud
Right to heaven girl
On a rock ‘n roll cloud

Some people say it’s evil
I know it’s good
You just got to play that rock music
Like you knew we would

My constellation’s in the clouds
Jimi Hendrix
Lennon too
They’re up there rockin’ out
Just playing for me and you
But you know what they said
It’s gonna be alright

Then it keeps coming
Gonna play this rock music all night uh huh say

I wanna be a rock star
Music so loud
Right to heaven girl
On a rock ‘n roll cloud

Some people say it’s evil
I know it’s good
You just got to play that rock music
Like you knew we would

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This song reminds me of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Violet Minds were a band from Arizona that came out to record with me in California.

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Ascend – New Faces Vol. 4

LYRICS – ASCEND

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I really can’t make out the lyrics enough to post them. I like this song for the guitar mix. I like the nice crunchy, raw guitar sound we captured. I also like the different timbres and textures of the various electric guitar sections.

Teething was/is a Southern California original band.

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Medulla Oblangada – New Faces Vol. 4

LYRICS – MEDULLA OBLANGADA

Deception’s game is being lost
By those who are giving in
Rarely choosing what they feel is right
As opposed to what is actually sin
So who’s to convey what is actually true
As opposed to what remains taboo?
You might be thinking what can we say
What can we possibly do?

CHORUS
Jesus is the way
He shatters all the lies and deception
Jesus saves the day
He’s coming down again

He’s coming down…

Lookin’ around now we see the sin we see
And people try to make them make believe
That if we learn to tolerate then everything’s ok
Waste of time

Jesus has come to show the way
He is living with us here today
He is standing here with open arms
Welcome (us and)

CHORUS
Jesus is the way
He shatters all the lies and deception
Jesus saves the day
He’s coming down again

I want to tell you about my friend who’s Jesus
He is my friend
Loves us all
He is my friend
Standing here right now waiting for you

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I think Brothers of the Creed has so much talent. I just love their organic sound, it’s like you can just crunch your teeth into it. They were a very convicted group and I enjoyed working with them very much.

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Shotgun Sam – New Faces Vol. 4

LYRICS – SHOTGUN SAM

I was playin’ in a bar out in New Orleans
Yeah I got me a little Cajun queen
She’s a brown eyed beauty with long brown hair
When I’m with her I don’t have a care

Daddy don’t like me
He’s goin’ all around
He’s carryin’ a shotgun
He shot ‘em all down

CHORUS
He’s a mean old man named Shotgun Sam
And he’s pointin’ that gun at me

I thought about fighting but I wouldn’t dare
‘Cause that big ol’ shotgun’s a loaded for bear
It was a hot August Friday night
And I knew this could be the end of my life

But I’m here to tell you
When you’re under the gun
That girl wasn’t worth it
But she sure was fun

CHORUS
He’s a mean old man named Shotgun Sam
And he’s pointin’ that gun at me

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Mudfish is a band from Southern California.

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Punk Rock Pills – New Faces Vol. 3

LYRICS – PUNK ROCK PILLS

Little bar named Tokyo
Where no one goes
‘Cause no one knows exactly
What is going up their nose
Brown cheese and shitty beer
And I’m glad she stays away from here
She’d be the last one left here
On my jock tonight

CHORUS
Where is my Vicodin?
I slammed all my heroin
My punk rock pills will get me through the day
Where is my Percodan?
I snorted all my coke again
My punk rock pills will make me feel ok

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The Elvis Disciples punk band were SO much fun to work with and I love their music. I love this song because it’s so politically incorrect, and that’s part of what punk is all about.

I’ll let you in on a little studio secret. For all the years that I worked in studios you know which genre always paid their bills on time, worked the hardest and were always good for their word? The punk bands! Believe it or not. Just my experience.

The look and presentation of the genre is part of the art. And I have high respect for that too.

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Your Own Sin – New Faces Vol. 3

LYRICS – YOUR OWN SIN

Feeling like I’m all alone
Why should I have to feel this way
Feeling like I lost someone
Shouldn’t to end this way

Oh tell me why did you ever have to go now?
Oh tell me why did you ever have to leave me?
Stuck around for my birthday

Feeling like I lost someone
Shouldn’t have to feel this way
Feeling like I love someone
But I can’t see their face

CHORUS
Tell me what do you think when you think of me?
Does the thought of it make you proud of me?
I came out looking just like him
Does it ever remind you of your own sin?

(Instrumental Solos)

CHORUS

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Albert Miranda is a Christian blues singer and guitarist from the Southern California High Desert. I produced an album for him and this is one of the cuts on that album, also released by Road Records on the New Faces Volume 3 compilation CD.